An Actual Twitter Security Problem: The Fake Retweet

Twitter's
stolen/hacked documents situation this week doesn't have
anything to do with Twitter's security as a communication
platform. But this does: The fake retweet, where one person uses
common Twitter "retweet" lingo to make it sound like their
statement is coming from someone else.

Such as these two (admittedly amusing) tweets purportedly from
TechCrunch's Michael
Arrington, who didn't actually say either of these things.

This isn't a huge problem yet, but at some point, Twitter might
want to figure out a way to deal with it. The company is already
rolling out "verified" accounts, to make sure people know which
celebrities are really themselves. But that won't stop these
impersonations via retweets.